Pride is the civil rights movement of our generation. Fifty-six years ago, this summer, New York City bar patrons of many genders, sexualities, and racial identities trapped a group of police officers inside the Stonewall Inn after they shut down the bar in yet another routine raid. Riots continued the following two nights as the LGBTQIA+ community spread word that something unique was happening in Greenwich Village. However, whatever happened that night lit a spark that lasted for several days and propelled America’s gay rights movement — the Gay Liberation Movement — forward. Every June, Pride month, we celebrate their
Pair Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee’s The Swineapple Express with our house cider, Incline Cider’s Basecamp Proctor. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Swineapple Express Saturday, May 31, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee has created another sandwich special masterpiece this time with bacon, Beecher’s Cheddar, caramelized onions cooked in thyme and balsamic vinegar, Granny Smith apples, arugula, and Dijonnaise on sourdough PAIRING: Incline Cider Basecamp Proctor Dy Cider The apple in the sandwich plays beautifully with the Peaks & Pints tart, dry house cider Basecamp Proctor made by Incline Cider. THING TO DO: Please
A sour beer becomes super sour due to the presence of organic acids, mainly lactic and acetic acids, produced by bacteria and yeast during fermentation. The process used, aging time, and ingredients all influence the final level and character of sourness. Sours get their trademark tartness and sourness from bacteria and wild yeasts — Lactobacillus, Acetobacter, Brettanomyces, and other critters — which you wouldn’t find in different styles of beer. Each type of bacteria imparts its distinctive flavor and aroma: Lactobacillus has a tang reminiscent of yogurt, Acetobacter contributes the sourness of vinegar, and Brettanomyces exhibits a barnyard, earthy, or
This Friday, the six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler includes two NA beers from Self Care in Olympia. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.30.25 We created a suggested six-pack featuring new arrivals from the Peaks & Pints cooler. ANCHORAGE BREWING FRENEMY: Imperial Stout brewed with Thai bananas, toasted coconut, and Ghana cocoa nibs, and then aged 18 months in Russel’s Reserve, Heaven Hill, and Russel’s Reserve Rye bourbon barrels, 16%, 375ml BROTHERS CASCADIA BREWING OYE COMO VA: A collaboration with Heathen Brewing, this Mexican India pale lager is brewed with Wakatu
Plunking a slice of orange on the side of a glass of beer is a distinctly American tradition — one that Peaks and Pints wishes would kindly die. Not only do oils found in the peels of these fruits hinder head formation and rob you of precious aroma, they’re unnecessary. Brewers are already skilled at incorporating orange flavors directly into a beer, using the fruit to harmonize with similar notes found in hops or to add a spicy element to smooth wheat. Tired of all that peeling? Get your daily dose of Vitamin C with five orange-y craft beers in
Shawna Cormier explains new changes at the 2025 Washington Brewers festival on the Grit & Grain Podcast. Good Morning, Mashing-In News: Washington Brewers Festival, Oscar Wong GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, May 30, 2025 — CeeLo Green turns 50 today (written in auto-tune) Washington Brewers Festival – Now With More Wrestling When Shawna Cormier isn’t spending her days rizzing up King 5 Morning News hosts with facts about German goses or helping the American Homebrewers Association solidify their independent non-profit status, she is busy planning the largest gathering of breweries and beer nerds in the
The Peaks & Pints Thursday Buffalo Chicken Salad Sandwich Special pairs with Epic Brewing’s Horchata Cream Ale. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Buffalo Chicken Salad Thursday, May 29, 2025: The Peaks & Pints Thursday Sandwich Special is Buffalo Chicken Salad with chicken, Frank’s RedHot, celery, carrot, garlic, mayo, blue cheese, and arugula on sourdough PAIRING: Epic Brewing Horchata Cream Ale Epic Brewing’s Horchata Cream Ale is a unique take on the traditional cream ale, inspired by the classic Mexican beverage horchata. This beer offers a smooth and creamy profile with a blend of sweet and
In its first year, Lucky Envelope Brewing won a medal at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival (GABF), which is now joined by others on their medal wall. The brewery’s name originates from a Chinese tradition of giving out red envelopes filled with paper money as a gesture of good fortune. Red is meant to ward off evil spirits and bring good health, while the money inside is supposed to bring prosperity. Owners Barry Chan and Ray Kwan are Chinese Americans who embraced a culturally inspired philosophy to creating beer — from their Pandan Almond Milk Stout brewed with real
Beach Cat Brewing opens its new location on the waterfront in downtown Bellingham today. Good Morning, Mashing-In News: Beach Cat, Cantillon Quintessence GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, May 29, 2025 — Break out the Champagne Supernova! Noel Gallagher turns 58 today! Beach Cat Brewing’s New Location Beach Cat Brewing has announced the opening day for its new location on the waterfront in downtown Bellingham, Washington, which is set for today. (Washington Beer Blog) Key Bev-Alc Trends for summer 2025 3 Tier Beverages founder Donn Bichsel, consultant Danelle Kosmal, and CGA VP Matthew Crompton share a
Freebridge’s pickle sour pairs well with our Wednesday Sandwich Special. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Dill With It Wednesday, May 28, 2025: Peaks & Pints Mess Hall Monica offers a delicious Wednesday Sandwich Special with chicken, salami, pepperoncini, sun-dried tomato and garlic aioli, Havarti, onion, and romaine on French bread. PAIRING: Freebridge Brewing Slap & Pickle Gose This crushable German-style gose, kettle-soured with “Nancy’s Yogurt,” features organic coriander, kosher sea salt, and dill pickle juice. It pairs exceptionally well if you’re going for a bold, tangy, and slightly puckering food and beer experience. The acidity
Shawna Cormier returns to the Grit & Grain Podcast to discuss the 2025 Washington Brewers Festival at 3:30 p.m., May 28 at Peaks & Pints. Photo courtesy of homebrewersassociation.org Good Morning, Mashing-In News: Shawna Cormier, Barry Chan, Human People GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, May 28, 2025 — Gladys Knight turns 81 as she rides the midnight train to Georgia today. Grit & Grain Podcast Double Taping The Grit & Grain Podcast will record two episodes in Peaks & Pints’ Events Room today. At 3:30 p.m., Shawna Cormier, the chair of the American Homebrewers Association
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.27.25 It’s that time of the week again—new arrivals are here! Below is a suggested six-pack from the latest arrivals. AVERY BREWING DOUBLE BARREL MAPLE STOUT: Imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels, then aged in maple syrup barrels and dosed with coffee, cinnamon, and extra maple syrup for a shimmering black body with a darker beige head. Double Barrel Maple Stout hits the nose with strong notes of maple and wood, supported by earthy, bourbon, coffee, and fudge. The flavor continues this theme — maple, bourbon, and wood leading, with fudge and coffee rising
Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Meet The Meats Tuesday, May 27, 2025: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee offers a take on an Italian grinder with salami, pepperoni, ham, provolone, onion, tomato, shredded lettuce, mayo, and white balsamic on French bread. PAIRING: Von Ebert Brewing 7th Anniversary German-Style Pilsner As Von Ebert approaches its seventh anniversary this month, it has recently collaborated with one of the most decorated breweries in the world, Russian River Brewing. The two breweries collaborated in North Portland to brew the 7th Anniversary German-Style Pilsner, made with Diamant, U.S. Mittelfrüh, and Saphir hops, as well
While Natalie Cilurzo was working full-time at a winery, Vinnie Cilurzo bought a 7-barrel system from Electric Dave, a guy who was in jail in Bisbee, Arizona, for selling marijuana mail-order. Electric Dave sold Vinnie an old soup vessel for a brewing kettle, a DIY mash tun, and plastic fermenters before the Cilurzos opened Blind Pig in Temecula in 1994. Vinnie was already a homebrewer and had helped form the local Temecula Valley Homebrew Club. Russian River Brewing was founded in 1997 by Vinnie Cilurzo at Korbel Champagne Cellars, a Guerneville, California-based winery specializing in “California Champagne,” or sparkling wine
The 1904 IPA features a lineup of classic hop varieties: Cascade, Centennial, and Fuggle, all grown at Goschie Farms. Good Morning, Mashing-In News: Double Mountain 1904, Ticking Comeback GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, May 27, 2025 — Hey Ya! Andre 3000 turns 50 today! Double Mountain Introduces 1904 Hood River and Portland, Oregon’s Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery has collaborated with the legendary Goschie Farms of the Willamette Valley on a new seasonal 1904 IPA. This IPA is a heartfelt tribute to the roots of Pacific Northwest hop farming and to the people who have
The red alder at Point Defiance Park breaks its silence over stories of Camp 6 Logging Museum and the Tacoma SAMI school. Tacoma Silent Trees: Red Alder Breaking Silence “My happiest days were when the kids ran around studying my leaves,” says the red alder just north of the former Science and Math Institute (SAMI) along Five Mile Drive at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. The kids were sprier than the old dudes who ran the Camp 6 Logging Museum in the exact location for 21 years. Those guys just wanted to jabber over their Dolbeer
While repping Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits in Arizona, Jordan Zehner made cider in his laundry room. His father, Chris, would take vacations from managing winery sales to visit his son. Backyard discussions led to the development of a cider production business plan. A fortunate meeting with Schilling Cider CEO Chris Schilling led to a production contract deal and the launch of Incline Cider Company in 2015. The Auburn-based cidery uses 100 percent fresh-pressed apples, no added sugar, and no carbonated water, resulting in balanced ciders that are neither too sweet nor overly flavorful. In 2019, they opened the Incline
You fancy, Urban Roots Brewery All Possible Futures Bbl Barleywine! Fancy Pants Sunday: Urban Roots All Possible Futures Fashion-wise, we keep things casual at Peaks & Pints: Flannel, shorts, and hiking boots are all par for the course. Still, now and then, it’s fun to get dressed up a little bit and gather all your friends to do the same and indulge in fancy craft beer. This week’s Fancy Pants Sunday craft beer is Urban Roots Craft Brewery & BBQ Smokehouse’s All Possible Futures, a collaboration between friends Peter Hoey, formerly the brewmaster at Sacramento Brewing
Helles is a German-style blonde lager that is one of the few beers with an actual birth date — March 21, 1894, courtesy of the Spaten Brewery in Munich. Helles (pronounced “HELL-us”) was an invention of competitive necessity, like a few other styles. In the mid-1800s, the Bavarian brewer, Josef Groll, developed a new style of beer for brewers in Plzeň, Bohemia — the pilsner. Gabriel Sedlmayr, owner of Spaten, would have none of it. That fateful March day, he released an answer to pilsner — a light golden lager style called Helles, which translates to “bright,” “pale,” or “light.”
Peaks & Pints baconized our Burgerwhich for a Saturday Sandwich Special. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Bacon Burgerwich Saturday, May 24, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee grabbed our Burgerwich special and baconized it for roast beef, bacon, Beecher’s Cheddar, garlic aioli, onion, tomato, pickles, and lettuce on French. PAIRING: Block 15 Brewing Squirrel Stash Brown This “artistic” brown ale is brewed with specialty malts and English yeast for a soft body and a malt profile with notes of toasted nuts, baker’s chocolate, and coffee with a dry finish. The brown ale’s nutty, toasty malt
Tomme Arthur opened The Lost Abbey in May 2006, earning a devoted following among beer fans, stretching well beyond its hometown of San Marcos in San Diego County. Southern California is fortunate that they do not have to make a lengthy pilgrimage to taste its highly sought-after beers. Tacoma was fortunate until The Lost Abbey pulled out of the state in 2022. After a 2023 ownership restructuring, managing partner Arthur took complete control of The Lost Abbey. The brewery moved its production to the 16,000-square-foot facility previously operated by Eppig Brewing in Vista, California. This new space increases production efficiency
Grab this six-pack of new beer for your holiday weekend. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 5.23.25 Peaks & Pints has sandwiches, cans, and crowlers for your holiday weekend plans. Grab a pint and shop our cooler, including this suggested six-pack. Cheers! DREKKER BREWING FLUFF STUFF ORANGE: Smoothie sour brewed with oranges plus sweet and fluffy marshmallows, 6%, 16oz LADD & LASS BREWING PITCHERS & CATCHERS: West Coast IPA brewed with Cryo Simcoe, Citra, and Southern Hemisphere phenom, Peacharine, balanced by a dry body and hint of bready malt, 6.8%, 16oz LADD & LASS TRAMPLED BY
In the early ’90s, Dusty Trail converted the historic Engine House No. 9 bar into a brewpub at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pine Street, officially becoming the first microbrewery in Tacoma. Dick Dickens grabbed the Engine House reins in 2002, bringing in head brewer Doug Tiede. Heads turned and medals were hung. In 2011, The X Group added the Engine House to their local restaurant empire, with Shane Johns and Donovan Stewart running the kettles and hanging even more medals, primarily for their sours and saisons. They separated the brewery from the restaurant four years ago and opened
WSET beer educator Lyra Penoyer recaps the 2025 Craft Brewers Conference on Grit & Grain Episode 145. Good Morning, Mashing-In News: CBC 2025 Recap, Hellbent Party GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, May 23, 2025 — Jewel turns 51 today and will save your soul! Grit & Grain Podcast Discusses 2025 Craft Brewers Conference The annual Craft Brewers Conference wrapped up a few weeks ago. While the Grit & Grain team was busy holding the fort in Tacoma, their best buddy and favorite WSET beer educator, Lyra Penoyer, was on the scene in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Grit &
This suggested six-pack arrived in our cooler today! Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.22.25 Just hit the cooler! RUSSIAN RIVER BREWING JANNEMIE: Saison brewed with American and European malts and hops, a distinctive strain of farmhouse yeast, and finished with Brettanomyces for spicy, fruity, and floral notes with a lingering dry finish, 6.2%, 375ml RUSSIAN RIVER RND #68: Limited release West Coast IPA with notes of stone fruit, tropical fruits, and melon, 6.5% STOUP BREWING BUSINESS PORTAL: IPA packed with Nectaron, Simcoe, and Citra hops for peach, orange peel, pineapple, and bitter melon with a
Pair the Peaks & Pints The Aristochick sandwich special with Boulevard’s Tank 7 saison. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Aristochick Thursday, May 22, 2025: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen offers a fancy chicken sandwich on French bread with lemon pepper aioli, blue cheese crumbles, pickled onion, and arugula. PAIRING: Boulevard Brewing Tank 7 A traditional Belgian-style farmhouse ale, Boulevard’s Number 7 fermenter brought together the perfect combination of elements. You could call it fate, but they called it Tank 7, and so it is. Beginning with a big surge of fruity aromatics and grapefruit-hoppy
In 1920, Michael Loftus, an Irish immigrant and grandfather of BT Loftus, followed the railroad west, settled in Yakima, and bought the family homestead. Twelve years later, Leota Mae, wife of BT Loftus and great-grandmother to Bale Breaker Brewing owners, plants the first hop field, igniting the family’s legacy for four generations and counting. Mike Smith, father to Bale Breaker owners Patrick, Meghann, and Kevin Smith, joins grandmother Leota Mae to run the farm after BT’s sudden passing, marking the third generation of hop farmers. Kevin Quinn marries Meghann Smith after meeting at the University of Washington Business School. This
See you at the Parkway Tavern tonight! Good Morning, Mashing-In News: Bob’s Night, Westies With Our Besties GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, May 22, 2025 — Morrissey turns 66 today, so how soon is now? Georgetown Brewing’s “Bob’s Brown Beer” ReturnsThe 2025 edition of Georgetown Brewing’s “Bob’s Brown Beer” has been released. This annual May release is a fan favorite for its rich flavor profile. The Tacoma Bob’s release party is at the Parkway Tavern tonight. (Parkway Tavern Instagram) Regional IPA Collaboration: “Westies With Our Besties”On May 23, over 50 Washington breweries will release their
Happy Wednesday, Six-Pack! Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.21.25 After enjoying the Fort George 3-Way IPA Tacoma Release Party tonight, grab this suggested six-pack of new arrivals to our 850+ cooler. Cheers! AMERICAN SOLERA PIPE: Formally known as Tulsa Pipe, this crisp, hoppy, slightly hazy West Coast IPA is brewed with Simcoe, Amarillo, and Azacca hops for pine and bold resinous hop bite, 6.5%, 12oz BALE BREAKER BREWING I LOVE MY STATE PARKS IPA: West Coast IPA brewed with Simcoe, Citra, Mosaic, and Chinook for aromas of grapefruit, pineapple, and melon with a portion of
Summer is an exciting time for beer nerds. Regionally, the season is met with the release of Fort George Brewery’s (Astoria, Ore.) 3-Way IPA. The hoppy beer is an annual collaboration — in its 13th year — with two other West Coast breweries. Sunriver Brewing (Sunriver, Ore.) and Mirage Beer (Seattle, Wash.) collaborated on this year’s brew. Join Peaks & Pints for the Official Tacoma 3-Way IPA Release at 5 p.m. today. We will have 3-Way and other Fort George beers, plus several from Mirage, on tap. Fort George Sale Executive Kyle Vormestrand will be in-house sampling and handing out
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.20.25 In addition to the Fort George 3-Way IPA loaded into the Peaks & Pints cooler, we’re highlighting six more recent arrivals. … BLOCK 15 BREWING FLUFF’S TRAVELS: BARBE ROUGE: Hazy IPA brewed with Barbe Rouge hops for zesty citrus aromas of orange and kumquat sail with ripe currant and strawberry hop characters, 6.8%, 16oz FORT GEORGE BREWERY LIBERTY ASTORIA ALE: Collaboration with the Liberty Theatre in Astoria, this pale ale is brewed with Crosby Comet and CTZ Extract for bright melon and citrus, 5.9%, 16oz DREKKER BREWING THE BREAKFAST GANG: Fruited sour loaded
Pair Peaks & Pints Tuesday Sandwich Special, The Paul Reubens, with Structures Brewing’s Coffee Forest King Brown Ale. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Paul Reubens Tuesday, May 20 2025: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen offers a twist on a Reuben with turkey, sauerkraut, Obatzda, beer mustard, olives and arugula on rye bread. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Paul Reubens Pairing: Structures Brewing Coffee Forest King English Brown ales are copper to dark brown, medium-bodied beers. They offer mild maltiness with caramel, biscuity, and sometimes toasted qualities and commonly range from 4.2 to
High school dropout turned tech industry entrepreneur Barry Braden met Ballast Point brewer Alex Tweet in San Diego. They became fast friends. Tweet went on to brew at Modern Times Beer. Braden knew Tweet needed his brewery to flourish. Braden convinced Tweet to move to Northern California so they could open Fieldwork Brewing Company in West Berkeley. They opened Fieldwork in 2014, adding satellite operations in Corte Madera, Monterey, Napa, Sacramento, San Leandro, San Mateo, and San Ramon. Fieldwork honors Northern California’s magnificent outdoor landscapes with an array of idiosyncratic, highly aromatic, well-balanced beers. Today, Peaks & Pints presents a
Swing by Peaks & Pints for a Fort George 2025 3-Way IPA today or tomorrow with added sweet prizes! Good Morning, Mashing-In News: 3-Way, Gigantic Comics, Logan lands GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, May 20 2025 — Cher turns 79 today, so let’s go gypsys, tramps, and thieves! 3-Way IPA (2025 Edition) – Fort George, Mirage, & Sunriver Brewing This annual collaboration drops today with the official 2025 3-way IPA Tacoma release party at Peaks & Pints at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 21. This year’s 3-Way is a West Coast IPA featuring a blend of
The Four NW Beverageteers (unmasked) will be at the Fort George 2025 3-Way IPA Tacoma Release Party at Peaks & Pints Wednesday, May 21. Fort George 2025 3-Way IPA Tacoma Release Party at Peaks & Pints By now, you may have seen the social media posts of The Four NW Beverageteers and their antics at yesterday’s Fort George Brewery 2025 Lupulin Festival, an IPA festival launching this year’s 3-way IPA and celebration the beer’s past brewery collaborators, held on the grounds of the historic Flavel House Museum in Downtown Astoria, Oregon. Dressed as the animals on
Away days is a well-known term in English football (soccer) culture, referring to the day you watch your team play in another city. The day is about travelling with your community, celebrating (or commiserating) your team, and building experiences around your passion for football, travel, and beer. Opened in 2019 by former Toffee Club owners and British transplants Niki Diamond and Pete Hoppins, Away Days Brewing is inspired by a love of the beautiful game and favorite beer-drinking memories of European travels. After COVID-19 turned their corner of Southeast 10th and Hawthorne grittier with less foot traffic, they closed The
The Pacific madrone at Point Defiance Park witnessed the Great Grizzly Escape of 1937. Tacoma Silent Trees: Pacific Madrone Breaking Silence “I’ve seen Fort Nisqually open in 1937, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in 1940, and the landslide just north of Salmon Beach three days after the 1949 Puget Sound earthquake, but the event I remember most was the Grizzly bear escape from Point Defiance Zoo in July of 1937,” says the Pacific madrone at the Narrows Viewpoint on the Five Mile Drive in Point Defiance Park. “Men with high-powered rifles scoured Point Defiance looking for
You have dragged your weekend-weary, sorry self through the first day of work-week drudgery. It wasn’t easy, though, and you deserve a little reward. On your walk over for a much-needed ice cream cone at Ice Cream Social, stop by Peaks & Pints and grab our imperial cider flight, the Peaks & Pints Monday Imperial Cider Flight. Every Monday, Peaks & Pints offers a flight of ciders. Today, we’re bumping up the alcohol by volume to greater than eight percent. So, skip the OG magnum of Yellow Tail Shiraz and grab the after-work reward you were looking for. Stay for
You fancy, Fort George Sometimes Things Take Longer! Fancy Pants Sunday: Fort George Sometimes Things Take Longer Breweries barrel-age beer to extract compounds from the barrel’s wood fibers and its previous contents over time. These flavors and aromas infuse into the beer, adding a layer of complexity. Whether it’s a barrel-aged barleywine, bourbon barrel-aged Russian imperial stout, or a blend of barrel-aged barleywines and bourbon barrel-aged Russian imperial stout, the barrel’s lineage and heritage, along with the ingredients and the barrel-aging technique, engage beer fans and stimulate demand. Sometimes beer blends can be fancy, such as
“Invention, my dear friends, is 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation, and 2 percent butterscotch ripple.” Those are the words of Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Brewing beer could be said to be much the same, especially when creative beer makers use all kinds of sweet treats in their recipes, from candy and cookies to cereal and cinnamon rolls. While the notion of a sweet beer may be sickening to those who prefer their hops, malt, and water to be unadorned by ingredients more commonly seen in children’s sticky hands on Halloween, there
Raised in Puyallup, Colin Lenfesty was a longtime homebrewer who worked his way into the former Schooner EXACT Brewing team, where he met sales guy Mike Murphy. In 2014, the two opened Holy Mountain in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood. Their oak-influenced and mixed fermentation beers and hop-forward ales and lagers instantly gained crowds and awards. During the pandemic, Murphy left Holy Mountain and the industry to open Outer Dark Coffee in Tacoma, leaving Lenfesty to forge ahead. Forklift failures, whiskey wrestling, fly fishing, and the quickest and most delicious entry into craft beer fame — hear how Lenfesty built Holy Mountain
If you’re looking for a last-minute adventure to get out of town this weekend, Yakima Valley’s Varietal Beer Co. is hosting GoatFest in Sunnyside on May 10. Consisting of German bock-style and other German-style lagers, the event will be held at Centennial Square across the street from the Varietal brewery. Varietal partnered with Nuestra Casa again this year as the non-profit recipient of all proceeds from this event. Nuestra Casa’s mission is to empower immigrants to create positive changes, enriching themselves, their families, and their communities through education, advocacy, and mutual support. In celebration, Peaks & Pints presents a Friday
Peaks & Pints picked this six-pack from the new arrivals in our cooler. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.8.25 Peaks & Pints’ new beer six-pack 5.8.25 has all the flavor! 🍻 BLOCK 15 BREWING BOARD SHORTS: Brewed in memory of original Block 15 bar manager, Seth, this summer IPA is brewed with Mosaic, Citra, Amarillo, and Galaxy for passionfruit and guava notes, 6.5%, 16oz CLOUDBURST BREWING HOT MINUTE: “You know a hop we haven’t used in ages?!” asks Cloudburst Brewing. “You’re never gonna guess so we’re just gonna tell you – Meridian. See, we knew
“In the quiet hollow of the Chimacum Valley, as the first green shoots push through soil warmed by lengthening days, we at Finnriver find ourselves at a similar threshold of emergence and renewal,” states Finnriver Farm & Cidery. “Like the apple trees in our orchard awakening from their winter slumber, we too are stretching toward new possibilities while remaining rooted in what matters most.” With spring’s warmth, Finnriver canned two of its beloved varieties, Bloom and Blush. In celebration of Finnriver’s first canning, Peaks & Pints hosts a Finnriver can release party and tap takeover from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, May
